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Yes, it's true. But generally there are a variety of reasons that can consequently cause performance issues on your Mac. Meanwhile, there are certain ways through which you can do to fix one by one. However, if you prefer a more efficient way to resolve, try an all-in-one Mac speed up software as it can help resolve all issues in just a few clicks.

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First, you have a complete knowledge about your system. try to up-to-date your system. check you CPU load time to time. remove unnecessary process while working through Task Manager. check your hardware check for virus through antivirus and more activities for full analysis of your system. if need more help follow Mac Support .

it's because iTunes videos and audios are DRM protected, you need some software to remove DRM, Tune4mac iTunes Video Converter Platinum is a good choice.

Well, generally speaking there are a number of reasons that may causing a Mac computer running slow, but commonly two factors: hardware part & system part. For hardware part: I guess it's OK if your Mac is not that old. For system part: there might be a lot of junk files, caches, registry errors... out there which largely slow down any Mac machines. about 80% slow Mac caused by this reason, if so, try cleaning the system from: http://www.howtospeedupmac.com/

The OS X flashes the message 'Startup disk is almost full' when your OS drive (boot disk) is out of free spaces. Though it is not a major issue but its solution should be made asap. You can make some quick free spaces through below tips/tricks 1) Empty Your Trash 2) Lighten your Download folder by removing unnecessary downloads 3) De-Clutter your Desktop 4) Empty Caches 5) Empty Logs 6) Lighten your Dashboard 7) Get rid of unwanted apps Since your hard drive is large (1 TB), I recommend you use free clean up Mac software in order to get rid of garbage from your Macintosh HDD. You can free clean up your Mac with Stellar Speedup Mac tool.

There are a number of reasons that may causing a Mac computer running slow, but generally two factors: hardware part & system part. For hardware part: I guess it's OK if your Mac is not that old. For system part: there might be a lot of junk files, caches, registry errors... out there which largely slow down any Mac machines. about 80% slow Mac caused by this reason, if so, try cleaning the system. Learn more from: http://www.howtospeedupmac.com/

Hi, thereGenerally there are a variety of reasons that can consequently lead to the issues on your Mac. Meanwhile, there are certain ways through which you can do to fix one by one. However, if you prefer a more efficient way to resolve, try an all-in-one Mac speed up software as it can help resolve all issues in just a few clicks. Learn more: http://www.howtospeedupmac.com/Hope this helps!

There are many reasons of slow Mac. Due to system caches duplicate files, system junks, universal binaries, language files presents in your Mac and makes it slow. Everybody should optimize Mac OS X. I prefer Stellar Drive ToolBox - a third party tool to keep my Mac in tip top shape.

Unfortunately iTunes doesn't let you transfer anything other than your iTunes store purchases from your iPod.

Totransfer all your iPod content, all your music, playlists, videos,podcasts and photos to your new iTunes library you will need todownload software like TouchCopy.

Here is how to use TouchCopy

1. Download and Install TouchCopy. Downloads are free and are available for both PC and Mac.
2. Start up TouchCopy by double-clicking the TouchCopy icon on your desktop
3. Connect your iPod or iPhone to your computer. TouchCopymay start iTunes - don't worry, TouchCopy has fixed it so that iTuneswill not sync music or video with your iPod while TouchCopy is running.These changes are restored when you quit TouchCopy.
4. Now select which songs you want to copy into iTunes, if you want toselect all your music, select "Music" from the list on the left andclick on "Copy to iTunes" button in the TouchCopy control bar. In a similar way, you can also use TouchCopy to copy your playlists, videos, podcasts, photos, contacts, calendars and notes.
5. Whenyou are satisfied that all your iPod content is safely in iTunes, useiTunes to re-sync your iPod which will enable you to add new content toit.

Turn on sound, plug in external powered speakers. It that does not solve the problem try posting exactly what is wrong with the sound on your MacBook.

Go to the apple menu and there is a force quit there or go to the application that you want to force quit in the dock and holding down the right button on your mouse will give you access to force quit or on the keyboard hold down the cmd, alt and esc keys and this will bring up the force quit menu. Hope this helps.

This means that your internal hard drive is not currently bootable. That can happen for a variety of reasons, which are:

1. The disk has crashed and is no longer usable.
2. The Mac OS X System Folder has become damaged due to permission problems, a botched software upgrade, or some other software-caused problem.
3. The hard drive controller on your Mac's logicboard has failed.

Without knowing the model of your Mac, I can only guess what is going on here. To know for sure, you need to locate your original Apple software restore CD/DVD -or- a retail Mac OS X install DVD.
Do the following:

1. Power on the Mac, insert the bootable CD/DVD.
2. Hold down the power button until the mac turns off.
3. Hold down the "C" key on the keyboard and press the power button to turn the unit on.
4. It will take a while, but your Mac should start booting a copy of Mac OS X off of the CD/DVD.
5. Once booted into the Installer, locate the menubar at the top of the screen. Click on the "Apple" icon (top left of screen) and click "About this Mac". Click the "More Info..." button.
6. You should now see the Apple System Profiler.
7. On the left panel, locate "ATA" or "Serial-ATA". You should have one of them contained within your Mac. When you click on the correct one, you should see the list of hard drive controllers (two), one with your CD/DVD rom listed, and the other with your hard drive listed underneath. If you don't see two controllers, one or both of your hard drive controllers have failed and you need to send the Mac to Apple for hardware repair.
8. If you DO see your hard drive listed, then you hardware is at least working. That rules out a failed hard drive controller and mostly likely your hard drive is physically intact. The software on it might still be wrecked, but the hardware appears to work.
9. Close "System Profiler" and get back to the MacOS X Installer. Click on the "Tools" or "Utilities" on the top of the menu bar. Locate "Disk Utility" and launch it.
10. Within Disk Utility, locate your hard drive on the left side of the screen, click on it once to highlight it and then click the button "Verify Disk". This will do an exhaustive search against your drive to see if there are any problems with the Mac OS X installation. If there is still a copy of Mac OS X left to salvage, this will tell what the problem is.
11. If "Verify Disk" finds an instance of Mac OS X with problems, you can try running "Repair Disk" and then "Repair Disk Permissions" to clean up any problems with the copy of Mac OS X. Keep in mind, when you have filesystem problems, sometimes fixing the problems can make permanent changes to your filesystem that have unintended consequences.

At this point, if your hardware is intact and you have a filesystem problem, the safest thing to do is to go find a firewire drive big enough to install a copy of Mac OS X on it (anything larger than 10GB should be fine), install Mac OS X to the firewire drive and then try to mount your internal hard drive while running from Mac OS X on the firewire drive. This assumes that you have files on the internal drive that you don't want to lose. If this is not the case, you can safely reinstall Mac OS X on your internal drive and start over again.

Hello,
You should just need to insert your OSX disk maybe snow leopard, then install bootcamp drivers from it also run apple software update, from the start menu or programs. install the latest free updates and you should be good to go.
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Uninstall apps

You can uninstall apps you got from the Mac App Store, from other websites, or from discs. You can't uninstall apps that are part of OS X, such as Safari and Mail. Apps downloaded from the Mac App Store: Click the Launchpad icon in the Dock, hold down an app's icon until all the icons begin to jiggle, then click an app's delete button >. If you later want the app, you can reinstall it from the Mac App Store.

Command-Shift-3: Take a screenshot of the screen, and save it as a file on the desktop

Command-Shift-4, then select an area: Take a screenshot of an area and save it as a file on the desktop

Command-Shift-4, then space, then click a window: Take a screenshot of a window and save it as a file on the desktop

Command-Control-Shift-3: Take a screenshot of the screen, and save it to the clipboard

Command-Control-Shift-4, then select an area: Take a screenshot of an area and save it to the clipboard

Command-Control-Shift-4, then space, then click a window: Take a screenshot of a window and save it to the clipboard

not really - safe mode is a windows feature - MAc is based on BSD unix
Try holding down the "Shift" key as you boot to keep extensions and control panels from turning on. You get the message saying extensions are off after about ten seconds or so.

In the menu bar, go to "Safari" > "Preferences..." Click on the "Advanced" tab, and at the bottom check "Show Develop menu in menu bar". You can now find "Empty Caches" it in the "Develop" menu bar.

It may not have much RAM. If it's web that seems slow, your connection might be slow from something other than your laptop. Your laptop will run fastest without downloading anything to "help" it run faster. All of that stuff is garbage.

Well, there are quite a lot of causes for a running slow or freezing MacBook computer when you use the internet browser, if you prefer a quicker yet easier way to fix the performance issues, see here: http://www.speedupmacbook.com/